Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher received the latest installment in gifts from the Maddox Foundation this week, $506,880 in gifts to help fund construction of the Maddox Grand Atrium, and to continue funding Belmont’s Presidential Scholars Program scholarships and the Rasmussen Foreign Studies Program.
Staff Changes in Belmont Athletic Department
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Belmont Student in Miss Tennessee Pageant
Belmont’s own Lindsey Harper is one of 36 finalists in the Miss Tennessee pageant, to be held June 18-21 in Jackson, Tenn.. Harper, 20, of Trenton, Tennessee, won the Miss Madison contest, a preliminary to the Miss Tennessee pageant.
Fisher Named President of A-Sun Conference
Belmont University’s NCAA Division 1 athletics program continues to rack up impressive wins. Most recently, Belmont President Robert C. Fisher was named President of the Atlantic Sun Conference and Chair of the Presidents Council for the 2003-04 season at the recently concluded meeting of the A-Sun Presidents Council.
Belmont’s Latest Athletic Triumphs Happen in Classrooms
University claims second straight Atlantic Sun academic trophy; bests NCAA Division 1 graduation rate
Belmont University’s NCAA Division 1 athletics program continues to rack up impressive wins.
Sybril Bennett to Lead New Journalism Program
Belmont University has hired Sybril M. Bennett, Ph. D., as executive director to lead the university’s restructured New Century Journalism program. Belmont is revamping its journalism program to meet the multi-faceted needs of media in the digital era.
Bennett, who holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Vanderbilt University, and comes to Belmont from The News Channel 5 Network in Nashville, where she served as reporter, is the perfect choice to lead the New Century Journalism program, says Thom Storey, associate dean of the School of Social Sciences and chairman of the Department of Media Studies. “Dr. Bennett has the perfect blend of experience, in real-world journalism and in higher education, to help lead Belmont’s program.”
Bennett has been in the television news business for more than 10 years with behind the scenes positions at CBS in Chicago and ABC in Milwaukee. She served as a tenure-track assistant professor of electronic media journalism at Middle Tennessee State University, as well as Senior Public Affairs Officer and special assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Media Relations at Vanderbilt University.
This fall, Belmont launches its revamped journalism program, designed to prepare journalists to work in the increasingly digital, multi-media, consolidated business world of the media.
“The journalist of the future is going to be someone who is trained from the beginning to be flexible and work in an environment that mixes digital images, sound, text and the Internet as well as traditional newspapers, magazines and television and radio broadcasts,” says Storey.
Belmont Claims Second Straight Atlantic Sun Academic Trophy
Belmont University picked up its second consecutive Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Champion Trophy, besting its own record of All-Academic honorees set last year by four percent.
Belmont center hosts Cont. Ed. for Women in Construction
Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship hosts an 8-week course
Belmont’s Higgins Receives Award for Excellence
Dr. Leslie Higgins, Belmont University’s Director of Graduate Studies in Nursing, has been awarded the Tennessee State Award for Excellence as a Nurse Practitioner. This award is given yearly by the Academy of Nurse Practitioners to someone who displays excellence as a nurse practitioner.
